We’ve been so busy baking lately it’s been hard to find time for writing! I’ll run through the highlights here with you, but the headline is this; the more time you let your kids experiment in the kitchen the more self sufficient they’ll become! I know, not exactly a news flash, but it’s something I forgot until we started this journey, so I figured it’s not a bad reminder for everyone.
So let me start with the rundown of what we’ve been baking. Go run and get a napkin because you may start to drool just reading this. We’ve had some things to celebrate in the last couple weeks so we’ve been going big! To celebrate my husbands new job we made brownie cookies from our trusty book 100 Cookies by Sarah Kieffer (once again, here’s the link to it https://www.thevanillabeanblog.com/100-cookies/ ) but we added peanut butter m & m’s, then we filled them with vanilla ice cream! We HIGHLY recommend you try this! Ice cream brownie cookie sandwich anyone?!?! Um, always a YES!
Then, for a birthday celebration with our pandemic pod squad (AKA our trusted friends and the only people we’ve socialized with outside of our family for the last year) we made peanut butter chocolate chip cookies…to make s’mores out of. THATS RIGHT! Instead of the graham crackers we used cookies and it was MARVELOUS! Life changing, earth shattering, MARVELOUS! We posted the recipe for these cookies on our Instagram ( @100daysofbakingwithkids ) so go check it out there!
For the official birthday (we now have a 9 year old, it’s crazy) an ice cream cake was requested…but not just any ice cream cake. This ice cream cake was designed by the birthday girl. It went like this:
BOTTOM: our favorite brownies (King Arthur Baking recipe) https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/quick-and-easy-fudge-brownies-recipe
Then: Mint chocolate chip ice cream, homemade hot fudge (so easy, I’ll post the recipe bellow), another layer of brownies, more ice cream, more hot fudge, homemade whipped cream, sprinkles, and cherries. IT WAS SO GOOD!
The kids helped with all of it. They were the driving force behind all of this creativity. The idea to add peanut butter m&m’s, the idea to use cookies instead of graham crackers for the s’mores, and the entire design of the cake; that was all the kids! The point is, don’t try and hold them back. If they have an idea let them run with it. Sometimes they turn out horrible, other times you get on a streak like this and feast on delicious dessert after delicious dessert.
Let us know what you’re up to in the kitchen and how you like to be creative. We love new ideas!
As promised, hot fudge recipe:
1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup chocolate chips
Melt over medium heat in a saucepan until smooth
Add 2 TBLSPNS butter and mix off heat
You’re done!
Thank you to my pod squad co-mom for this recipe!
Happy baking friends. Don’t forget to check out our Instagram @100daysofbakingwithkids and our Facebook page, 100 days of baking with kids, for more photos and fun baking ideas!
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